Trump Demands Equal Time If Networks Air Biden Address
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Joe Biden is going to be addressing the nation at 8 PM on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday evening on his decision to drop his 2024 Democratic reelection bid.
Biden posted on X that he would speak “on what lies ahead” and how he will “finish the job for the American people.” He will speak at 8 p.m. ET.
He declined to preview his message after he returned to Washington, telling reporters to “watch and listen.”
“Why don’t you wait and hear what I say?” he said.
The president departed Delaware shortly before 2 p.m. on Tuesday, after nearly a week of isolating at his Rehoboth Beach home after his second bout with COVID-19. Biden is now testing negative for the virus and his symptoms have resolved, according to a letter from his doctor, Kevin O’Connor, released Tuesday.
Donald Trump is now demanding equal time from networks that decide to air the address.
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is demanding from the big four broadcast television networks equal time on air if they carry outgoing Democrat President Joe Biden’s primetime speech on Wednesday evening wherein Biden is planning to explain why he is stepping aside and endorsing his Vice President Kamala Harris instead.
David Warrington, counsel for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, sent letters to the heads of ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX demanding that if they air Biden’s primetime address, Trump be given equal time to make his own case to the public. Trump is now formally the Republican nominee for president, having accepted the nomination last week at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Biden dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday and instead endorsed Harris to succeed him as the Democrat nominee for president. That means Biden’s primetime address on Wednesday would be a purely political speech in favor of the Harris campaign.
These letters to the networks from Trump’s legal team, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News ahead of their public release, argue that Biden’s speech does not represent a “bona fide news event” but instead represents “a primetime campaign commercial to boost Vice President Harris’ anemic poll numbers.”
“On July 23, 2024, President Biden announced that he would be giving a primetime speech on Wednesday, July 24, 2024,” Warrington writes in each letter. “This speech is expected to address President Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race in the wake of his widely panned debate performance and freefalling poll numbers. It is also expected to address President Biden’s endorsement of Vice President (and “border czar”) Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination for president. As such, it appears that President Biden’s speech will not be a bona fide news event, but rather, a primetime campaign commercial to boost Vice President Harris’ anemic poll numbers.”
